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The Congressional Serial Set is a compilation of reports and documents published by Congress since 1817.

·Reports are statements that describe bills section by section, or sometimes present results of Congressional investigations.·Congressional documents include various types of miscellaneous Congressional publications, such as statements by executive agencies and the President submitted to Congress, plus additional materials Congress determines are worth preserving for posterity.

The completed set will have over 325,000 titles on approximately 11 million pages. Many historians consider the Serial Set the most historically significant collection of U.S. government documents ever published.

The American State Papers, which covers reports and documents published between 1789 and 1838, are also included. It reproduces items excluded from the Serial Set between 1817 and 1838.

Leads to online indexing of both the American State Papers and the Serial Set, and full texts of Serial Set volumes.